Loading ...
Good Governance: Hon. Bimbo Daramola and his 32 Bed Hospital By Ayodele Bayode
Dear Editor, I have some good words to say about Bimbo Daramola, the legislator representing
Sign up to receive the day's top stories, emailed every morning
Posts by : Uddin Ifeanyi
How Not To Treat Vernaculars, By Ifeanyi Uddin
When, recently, in a circular to all staff, my employers forbade the speaking of “vernacular” in favour of the English language, my initial reaction was... read more
Comment
Who Will Speak Out For Me? Ifeanyi Uddin
Ifeanyi Uddin On Saturday morning, last week, in a conversation with friends on Facebook, I was reminded of Reverend Martin Niemoller’s famous 1937 statement –... read more
Comment
Whose Government? By Ifeanyi Uddin
Ifeanyi Uddin There is a variety of Nigerian patriots for whom the mantra “my country, good or bad” is a creed of some sorts. Not,... read more
Comment
Lessons From Our Nascent Online Retailers, By Ifeanyi Uddin
Ifeanyi Uddin disagrees with official statistics saying inflation has been on the upswing all year, causing rising food prices, reducing disposable income, and hurting households’... read more
Comment
Where is the Economy Headed? By Ifeanyi Uddin
Ifeanyi Uddin There is this local quirk which never ceases to amuse (and amaze) me. A robust capacity for mimesis ensures that no sooner is... read more
Comment
Tightening Bank’s Margins, By Uddin Ifeanyi
Ifeanyi Uddin Of late, bank customers in the country have had cause to smile on their way to the banks. Courtesy of recent central bank... read more
Comment
Of Governments And The People, By Ifeanyi Uddin
Ifeanyi Uddin What is the purpose of government? Given the intensity of the arguments on all sides of this question, I suppose that discussion around... read more
Comment
De-legitimising Deregulation, By Ifeanyi Uddin
Ifeanyi Uddin The judgment, last week, of a federal high court, in which it found (amongst others) government’s deregulation of the downstream sector of the... read more
Comment
Of Taxes: Between The People And Their Government, By Ifeanyi Uddin
Ifeanyi Uddin In the first week of February, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) released the country’s trade figures for last year. Importantly, we appeared... read more
Comment
What Should The MPC Do? By Ifeanyi Uddin
Ifeanyi Uddin disagrees with official statistics saying inflation has been on the upswing all year, causing rising food prices, reducing disposable income, and hurting households’... read more
Comment
How Not To Protect The Naira, By Ifeanyi Uddin
Ifeanyi Uddin disagrees with official statistics saying inflation has been on the upswing all year, causing rising food prices, reducing disposable income, and hurting households’... read more
Comment
Deposits And Micro-finance Banks, By Ifeanyi Uddin
Ifeanyi Uddin disagrees with official statistics saying inflation has been on the upswing all year, causing rising food prices, reducing disposable income, and hurting households’... read more
Comment
Banks and Public Finances, By Ifeanyi Uddin
Ifeanyi Uddin One of the more interesting aspects of the last global financial and economic crisis was the way in which the health of banks,... read more
Comment
Making Sense of the CBN’s New Capital Adequacy Requirements, By Ifeanyi Uddin
Ifeanyi Uddin Last week, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) toughened its regulatory regime. Its review of risk weights on certain exposures in the computation... read more
Comment
Managing the Central Bank: Selecting Lamido Sanusi’s successor, By Ifeanyi Uddin
Ifeanyi Uddin On balance, therefore, we all have a huge interest in the process for selecting the next central bank governor. That office affects our... read more
Comment
Managing Nigeria’s Monetary Policy, By Ifeanyi Uddin
Ifeanyi Uddin Again, the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) rate-setting committee (the Monetary Policy Committee ― MPC) meets this morning. In a marked departure from... read more
Comment
Hiving-off the Central Bank’s banking supervision department, By Uddin Ifeanyi
Ifeanyi Uddin A disproportionately large part of the National Assembly’s resources was taken up last year with members attempts at altering the Central Bank of Nigeria... read more
Comment
Helping our people to shop better, By Ifeanyi Uddin
Ifeanyi Uddin Largely unremarked, despite its disruptive effect on traffic in places like Lagos, a lemming-like rush at retail sales outlets marked the end of... read more
Comment
Reflections on the last twelve months, By Ifeanyi Uddin
Ifeanyi Uddin An eventful year ends, much as it began — inauspiciously. Which is sad! For we recall the immediate past not so much for... read more
Comment
November Inflation Numbers, What Significance? By Ifeanyi Uddin
Ifeanyi Uddin disagrees with official statistics saying inflation has been on the upswing all year, causing rising food prices, reducing disposable income, and hurting households’... read more
Comment
Corruption, Nigeria, and the challenge of normalcy, By Ifeanyi Uddin
One of the more specific “ideological” schisms associated with the intermittent discourse on the nature of Africa’s development challenges is the one between the liberal... read more
Comment
Why we must restructure government a la Sanusi Lamido, By Ifeanyi Uddin
Ifeanyi Uddin disagrees with official statistics saying inflation has been on the upswing all year, causing rising food prices, reducing disposable income, and hurting households’... read more
Comment
The Nigerian economy and the 2013 inflation outlook, By Ifeanyi Uddin
I would ordinarily step back from any opportunity to wager. Thus, I never cease to wonder at the celerity with which my football-loving friends put... read more
Comment
To what and how does today’s MPC meeting respond? By Ifeanyi Uddin
Ifeanyi Uddin disagrees with official statistics saying inflation has been on the upswing all year, causing rising food prices, reducing disposable income, and hurting households’... read more
Comment
Is the Nigerian economy as healthy as the plaudits it is receiving suggest? ByUddin Ifeanyi
Ifeanyi Uddin disagrees with official statistics saying inflation has been on the upswing all year, causing rising food prices, reducing disposable income, and hurting households’... read more
Comment